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2014 Challenges, Random, Updates

2014 Challenge Announcement! (Or Not…)

Geoff W

2014 Books

(Don’t you love the image?!?! I found the book image via Google and then I made the overlap—I am art!)

If you haven’t noticed I have been missing again for a while. I’m slowly working my way through Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace as my final 2013 Challenge Read and am (surprisingly) thoroughly enjoying it.

I’ve known for a while I wouldn’t do any challenges next year, but I hadn’t officially decided until recently. I feel bad abandoning the three challenges I’ve done for two years now, but I think I need the distance and freedom to read what I want when I want without restrictions other than those I put on myself. So far the only thing I’ve decided to read next year are more library books, re-read a few books that I haven’t made time for in years and just to have fun. In addition to the no challenges I am currently debating on the format my blog will take in 2014 but won’t make any major decisions until I do my 2013 recap.

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Random, Updates

Thank You

Geoff W

So for those of you that have followed The Oddness of Moving Things for a while you’re aware of my personal turmoil or at least aware of the fact that it’s existed over the past year or so. It’s taken a lot to get through the year. I just posted this on Facebook and realized that a lot of it comes from the amazing people I’ve met through here.

It’s amazing where you find yourself year after year: 52 weeks later and I’m happier and healthier than I’ve been in a long time. I’m not as happy or as healthy as I know I’m going to be, but it does go to show that some adages actually are true: time does heal all [emotional] wounds.

So I just wanted to say thank you.

Thank you to those of you who I interact with on a regular basis and even those fleeting few who appear randomly.  Just by visiting and interacting with me you’ve given me the confidence and the support to keep this blog going and to better myself mentally, physically and emotionally over the past three years, but especially over the past year.

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This Makes Me Happy

Geoff W

A really long book domino chain from the Seattle Public Library.

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Boston

Geoff W

Love BostonI just wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who checked in with me after what happened on Monday. I’ve not met any of you in person, but the number of you that reached out to me to make sure me and my friends were okay was truly heart warming. I apologize if I didn’t get to respond to everyone individually, but hopefully you saw my message saying I was okay.

I was with friends about 2-3 miles from the finish line around the 24 mile marker and well away from Copley Square. It took a long time to get home that evening, but that was okay; I was safe and everyone I knew was safe. And as much as I love to complain about the MBTA and hate to admit anything great about them, I have to say their response immediately afterward and ability to get things back up and running mostly that evening and 99% the next day was incredible.

The city is slowly getting back to normal, but there are daily reminders, good and bad, that the Boston is dealing with the aftermath. Every morning I go through Copley station and the station is still closed and it’s an eerie reminder of what happened with all of the lights dimmed. There is still a large area cordoned off around the scene, including the historic Boston Public Library. But the worst is how empty the city feels; it is school vacation week, so many families are out of the city, but the lack of people on the T and walking the streets is eerie.

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SO MUCH SNOW!

Geoff W

As in over 24 inches (61cm)! And they’re saying another 4-8″ during the day today. Wow.

So to the left is me standing next to a snowdrift after the mini-bulldozer cleared the road and the right is Dexter enjoying the snow after we shoveled. The video is Olivia and Dexter going out into the snow before we’d shoveled a path. It’s both hilarious and sad at the same time.

Keep in mind they are LARGE dogs. The picture of Dexter is next to our bin which comes up past my waist. I’m pretty sure Olivia still isn’t happy with me, but we did finally get her out, but I had to coax her the entire way and she still didn’t look happy with us even though we cleared a big area for her.